While painstakingly crafting the thumbnail image for this video (a laborious process which sometimes takes up to 45 seconds), I noticed something: Furkan Korkmaz looks like a cartoon character.
With his comically large hairdo which borders on caricature, his larger-than-average eyes, his strange lack of teeth, his pointed face, his dopy expression, and his picture-perfect stubble, he looks like a character you would find on a Cartoon Network show. (Note that I rarely watched Cartoon Network when I was growing up except in very dire circumstances [such as Nickelodeon showing that one show about a sullen city slicker girl who moves out to the country and takes her camera with her everywhere])
Looking like a cartoon character isn’t a bad thing, though, and it’s easy to ignore when you’re a deadly three-point threat as Korkmaz is. When he strolls up to the three-point line waiting for the ball, defenders aren’t thinking “this guy’s hair is five inches tall so I’m not going to take him seriously”, they’re thinking “oh god please don’t let the ball get to him please don’t let the ball get to him please god please”. And then the ball gets to Korkmaz despite their prayers; boom, another Turkish Triple.
Hmm. Turkish Triple. I could put that on a T-Shirt.